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With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Ann Bausum
• Narrated By Natalia Payne

This book chronicles the long history of the fight for women's voting rights, beginning in 1848, with a focus on the years between 1913 and 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment was passed. The book includes profiles of notable women in the struggle.

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Phillip Hoose
• Narrated By Phillip Hoose, Michael Braun

At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, 15-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain.

Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Tanya Lee Stone
• Narrated By Susan Ericksen

Have you ever heard of the “Mercury 13” women? Did you know that nearly twenty years before the first women were let into NASA’s astronaut program, there were others who tried? What are the requirements for being shot into space, piloting a hunk of metal while carrying the hopes and fears of your nation? Mastery of flying, as well as courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, and fitness – any checklist would certainly include these. But when America created NASA in 1958, there was an unspoken rule in place....

Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History...and Our Future!

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 14 mins)
• By Kate Schatz, Miriam Klein Stahl
• Narrated By Bahni Turpin, Allyson Johnson
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Like all A-Z books, this one illustrates the alphabet - but instead of "A is for apple", A is for Angela - as in Angela Davis, the iconic political activist. B is for Billie Jean King, who shattered the glass ceiling of sports; C is for Carol Burnett, who defied assumptions about women in comedy; D is for Dolores Huerta, who organized farmworkers; and E is for Ella Baker, who mentored Dr. Martin Luther King and helped shape the civil rights movement.

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Russell Freedman
• Narrated By Barbara Caruso

Almost anything scares young Eleanor: mice, the dark, and a host of imaginary dangers. But she learns to hide her feelings - her father disapproves of fear, and she longs only to please him. She knows she will always disappoint her beautiful, socialite mother, because Eleanor is painfully shy and plain.

As a young debutante in Manhattan, she spends her days teaching needy children and touring crowded tenements.

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer - Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

• UNABRIDGED (33 mins)
• By Carole Boston Weatherford
• Narrated By Janina Edwards

Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within an inch of her life, Fannie Lou Hamer was a champion of civil rights from the 1950s until her death in 1977. Integral to the Freedom Summer of 1964, Ms. Hamer gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention that, despite President Johnson's interference, aired on national TV news and spurred the nation to support the Freedom Democrats.